If you send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope I will send you a photograph of myself at Woodstock with a hand-signed autograph for free. (Stamps only, no meter strips.)

I will gladly hand-sign anything you send if you include a check for $20 US made out to Joe McDonald. You are responsible for the packaging and the postage, both to me
and the return packaging and posting. Send to: Country Joe McDonald, P.O. Box 7064, Berkeley, California 94707-0158.

Get info on my upcoming gigs and booking. My new CD titled simply 50 is out. Preview the songs, notes, and musicians, and order your copy from the Country Store. Read a review. And another review.Craft Recordings has announced The Wave of Electrical Sound deluxe vinyl box set, celebrating the groundbreaking music of Country Joe and the Fish. The limited-edition, 4-LP box set offers both mono and stereo versions of Electric Music for the Mind and Body and I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, plus replicas of The Fish Game, a Fish Fan Club book and a Fish calendar; a 30-minute documentary and a 24-page book, featuring rare photos, artwork and new liner notes. Here's the package. You can order your copy here. Read about my "farewell performance" from the San Francisco Chronicle. Bill Steele, one of my partners in the Berkeley String Quartet, has died. Bill has his own site at billsteelesongs.com. The New York Times has an opinion piece about music and the Vietnam war.
I put on a show at the San Francisco County Jail for Heroes' Voices, an organization that does music and poetry events for inmate veterans. Check it out. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Kevin Fisher-Paulson was there and gives this account. I was at the LBJ Presidential Library for the Vietnam War Summit. Read recaps at its website, or see video here.
Alec Palao interviewed me at the Berkeley Historical Society on May 15th as part of its exhibit "Soundtrack to the 60s: The Berkeley Music Scene." See the video. At last proof that I improved the health of my generation: The Case for Cursing.They've been doing archaeological research at the site of the Woodstock festival! Learn about the Woodstock 50th anniversary events getting underway.

Politics got you down? This is sure to make you smile (it's the real thing).

The UCSF School of Nursing is planning to archive my Tribute to Florence Nightingale website so that its information will be saved for posterity. (But the site will still be available in its current location.) They are also taking over my collection of Nightingale memorabilia. Read an interview with me by the UCSF archivist.
Glass sculptor Peggy Pettigrew Stewart is casting the faces of many Woodstock musicians, including mine, to be reproduced in glass. We're going to be posting pictures of the process here as it goes along.
My son Devin has bought Berkeley's beloved Mr. Mopps' toy store. You can visit Mr. Mopps' on the web and on Facebook.